Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research

Part 1. Main Research Areas.- 1. An Introduction to Health Services Research.- 2. Comparative Effectiveness Research.- 3. Understanding Variations in the Use of Surgery.- 4. Health Policy Research in Surgery.- 5. Studying Surgical It's not all Black and White.- 6. Measuring Health Care Quality in Strategies, Limitations, and Currently Available Initiatives.- 7. Using data for local quality improvement.- Part 2. Emerging Areas of Research.- 8. Implementation Science and Quality Improvement.- 9. Understanding and changing organizational culture in surgery.- 10. Assessing patient-centered outcomes.- 11. Studying What Happens in the OR.- 12. Collaborative Quality Improvement.- Part 3. Tools of the Trade.- 13. Large Databases used for Outcomes Research.- 14. Methods for Enhancing Causal Inference in Observational Studies.- 15. Systematic Review and a Clinical Exercise.- 16. Medical Decision-Making Research in Surgery.- 17. Survey research.- 18. Qualitative research methods. Part 4. Career Development.- 19. Engaging Students in Surgical Outcomes Research.- 20. Finding a Mentor in Outcomes Research.- 21. What Every Outcomes Research Fellow Should Learn.- 22. Funding Opportunities for Outcomes Research.- 23. Choosing your first job as a surgeon and health services researcher.- 24. Building a Health Services Research Program.